From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Down with PYTHONPATH! Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2019 20:34:33 +0200 Message-ID: <871rzsoybq.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87muikr3bq.fsf@mdc-berlin.de> <8736k837bf.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:35940) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hcwTN-0005jd-PD for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:35:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hcwTE-00076V-U6 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:35:12 -0400 In-reply-to: <8736k837bf.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Ludovic Court=C3=A8s writes: >> GUIX_PYTHON2PATH / GUIX_PYTHON3PATH is as solution that=E2=80=99s really= just a >> variant of what we=E2=80=99ve been doing all along (with PYTHONPATH), an= d it has >> precedent in GUIX_LOCPATH, GUIX_GTK2_IM_MODULE_FILE, and >> GUIX_GTK3_IM_MODULE_FILE. It=E2=80=99s a simple solution and removing i= t later >> when a better solution comes along has virtually no costs. > > I agree=E2=80=A6 except for using the argument of there being a precedent, > because these were not solutions we were particularly proud of I think. > :-) Yes, those solutions aren=E2=80=99t pretty but they are well understood and= have no surprising behaviour, which is what I meant. GUIX_PYTHON2/3PATH would be a boring solution that works just like the others I listed. -- Ricardo